Currently attempting to mine an 8 character vanity npub prefix. 4 billion guesses down...


Using Rana or something else?


If so, I forked it and made edits that will email you all mined vanities. Could set as a background process and wait lol.

https://github.com/Spl0itable/rana


how would you migrate nsecs?


I'm using https://github.com/Eriner/vanity-npub


What is it?


Your name or something else with bitcoin in it?


Mine is a shorter vanity npub, currently mining a LN pubkey


There's a trillion possibilities for 8 characters of bech 32. How many CPU cycles are be needed to check one? I'm assuming there's not a better method than brute force, right?


There's no easy way to do that, but it's not for my personal use anyway.


Depends on the CPU. One of my machines can do a quarter million guesses per second so it could easily take a couple months. Just hoping I get lucky.


happy with 5


250kHz! That is way slower than I was expecting... couple months is right. It'd be $25-50 in electricity too.


Good luck!


I did a 7-character one in about 24 hours, so maybe it won't be that bad.


Any guide about vanity Bitcoin addresses?


2^64 ?


i wrote one of these: https://github.com/mleku/vainstr

there isn't currently any acceleration or AVX implementation to speed up deriving public keys so yes it's one of the most compute intensive operations you can do on a CPU short of long division

i wouldn't know exactly how many instructions are required, probably some poking around with a disassembler could reveal this


Don't do it. Bitcoin addresses are disposable for a reason.


SUCCESS!
It only required 200,000,000,000 guesses. 🫠
nostr:nevent1qqsx9c7x8fs660qvqqa4cr3nqed5ek6n3h2qfu00yclqjsp689x57vqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpaegm8nwwpyrtrnsjv84efjtp9mhpkvfenvxs487vx8d48y28qgxqvzqqqqqqyvh6uf3


I also did this